RFR: 8314730: GHA: Drop libfreetype6-dev transitional package in favor of libfreetype-dev

Tue Aug 22 21:47:18 UTC 2023

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:01:03 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > I did notice that this is set for the riscv64 build in `make/conf/jib-profiles.js`
> 
> This configuration only exists to verify that the build works. We don't currently use the binaries for anything. Using "bundled" made devkit creation and maintenance simpler.
> 
> For GHA, I think the builds should be configured the way we expect most users to configure them. On Linux, I think linking to a system installed freetype is more common and desired.

I agree, though I have wondered in the past if we should have a build-only run that tests out the non-default options for these (mostly `--with-x=system`, freetype is the exception).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15378#issuecomment-1688946046